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AS TO EQUAL RIGHTS.
The Banner Generally Found at the HeaG
of the Procession.

The Banner Generally Found at the Head
of the Procession.
1t is wrong to consider the variety OF
equality contemplated by the Declare.
ton of Independence ms likely in any
way to be mistaken for a kind of COM
munism of brains. We can safely say
that the time will never come when
the men with vast aggregations OF
brains will have to divide up with those
who simply have an opening for brains.
That kind of communism would be
mighty good thing, however, for the
people who claim that political equality
is chestnut.
If the man who breads the day when
equality is a settled fact could work it
some way to have brains divided up
equally and could be around when the
division is made he would be ahead.
But the equality referred to in the
Declaration is not that kind. IL is the
kind that does not chisel out poor
mans vitals in the matter of wages
and then compel him to buy every
thing he needs of his employer at a big
price. 1t is the kind that protects the
toiler who appeals to the law as
promptly and efficiently as it does the
swollen, stif-necked imitation Lord,
with his hired brains and his bogus
crest.
Equality in America ought to mean
that the bravest, ablest and best men
should rule the State and the Nation.
Then the United States Senate will not
look like mass-mceting of plumbers.
When equality is better understood
and becomes something besides an
empty name, the term political pull
will lose its significance, and the aver
age voter will not even need apolitical
pull to operate an election day cigar.
There has never been better banner
to fight under since the world began
than that of freedom and equality be-
fore the law, and the banner that has
this device written on it in Il plain,
running hand will generally be found
at the head of the procession.
The man who is born in America
finds, as soon as he does so, that he has
in his inside pocket small package Of
inalienable rights, among which are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi.
ness. If he happens to be born into
our set he uses these inalienable rights
with perfect impunity, swapping about
among some of his more unfortunate
companions until he also has their in.
alienable rights. He then proceeds to
make nuisance of himself.
Universal equality before the law has
not been asserting itself very much
lately, but the man who treads on the
tail of his coat is liable not to get home
in time for lunch, and when he does get
! home the chances are that he will
bring lobe of his liver with him in his
pockt-handkerchief.
There is a little contemplate fear
lurking aboutin the breasts of few one.
horse Americans that some one may
spring suddenly upon them and charge
them some day with being the equal Of
somebody.
Their fear is entirely groundless.
They can go to bed every night per,
fectly secure in the comforting con
seriousness that they will wake up in
the morning perfectly free from any
such charge, and no man will ever &C
to them and insist on an equal division
of brains with them unless he is man
whose brains are so abnormally large
that they actually pain him. BIZ Nye
ia ~ Y World.